@inproceedings{9214484aa15d4839b374d7ee71652bff,
title = "Influence of silver-nanoparticle layer in a chiral sculptured thin film for surface-multiplasmonic sensing",
abstract = "Multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves can be guided by the interface of a metal and a chiral sculptured thin film (STF). It is possible to embed within the chiral STF a layer of silver nanoparticles as sites to bind recognition molecules for sensing analytes of a certain kind. Chiral STFs were deposited on aluminum thin films. 5-nm-thick layers of silver nanoparticles were deposited in the chiral STF at different depths in different samples. The samples were then deployed in the Turbadar-Kretschmann-Raether configuration to observe the effects the silver-nanoparticle layer had on the multiple SPP-wave modes in relation to the depth. We concluded that the silver-nanoparticle layer tends to shift the angular locations of the SPP-wave modes but does not necessarily affect the location of the SPP-wave modes to an extent that would render the data uninterpretable.",
author = "Swiontek, {Stephen E.} and Akhlesh Lakhtakia",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; Nanostructured Thin Films VIII ; Conference date: 12-08-2015 Through 13-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2185842",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Motofumi Suzuki and Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Mackay, {Tom G.}",
booktitle = "Nanostructured Thin Films VIII",
address = "United States",
}